Jules & The Polar Bears - Fanetiks
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Artist: Jules & The Polar BearsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-01-17
Music Label: Wounded Bird Records
Soundtracks:
- Good Reason
- I Give Up
- The Smell of Home
- Fate
- Faded Red
- What Do You Belong To?
- You're So Complete
- Real Enough to Love
- Brave Enough
- All Caked Up
- I Only Feel Bad [*]
- Sometimes Real Life [*]
- Born out of Heat [*]
- Alive Alone [*]
- This Fabrication [*]
Music reviews of Fanetiks
Music Review: However you say it, a great album
Rating: 4 Stars
Jules Shear has always been a great songwriter; a spiritual heir to the likes of Alex Chilton or close kin to Aimee Mann, whom he once had a relationship with. But he has also been a style chameleon. "Fenetiks," his second album with the Polar Bears, is the peak of his "new wave" period, and probably one of his best all around.
Not only was Jules firing on all cylinders as a songwriter, his band was playing rock-solidly behind him. The secret weapon here was keyboardist Stephen Hague, who also co-produced. His edgy synths propel the album through some of the most rocking material Jules has ever done. Both the songs "Good Reason" and "You're So Complete" are as good as any of the best the synth happy '80's ever produced. (Hague would grow into a notorious producer, guiding Pet Shop Boys and New Order to some of their greatest successes.)
But the most important aspect of any record Shear is involved in is the writing. (Personal fave from "All Caked Up," "We're like two gods chewing the fat, killing each other about this and that.") On "fenetiks," he's clever, touching and witty. The ballads "Real Enough To Love" and - from the bonus EP tracks - "Alive Alone" share the kind of ache that Jackson Browne hits when at his best. "Alive Alone" has developed into a standard of sorts, with both Ian Matthews and Mickey Thomas (of Starship) taking cracks at it.
Jules made one more chaotic album with the Polar Bears that CBS inexplicably shelved - the ironically titled "Bad For Business" - before going out solo. It's a shame that "fenetiks" has been out of print for so long, as i consider it to be one the eighties' great lost albums. And as his career became more and more introspective and folky, only on two out-of-print Cds (the band project and sole CD from "Restless Sleepers" and his co-effort with Elliot Easton of the Cars, "Change No Change") did he ever invest himself with the frenetic energy of "fenetiks."
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Description of Fanetiks
Jules & The Polar Bears was the brainchild of singer/songwriter Jules Shear, forming the group in 1978. They were immediately signed to Columbia Records. Their 2nd album, Fanetiks, frequently makes the top 10 list of the most requested album yet to be issued on CD. So we now proudly accommodate those fans, & add 5 bonus tracks, consisting of one rare single b-side, plus the complete Economy Package EP! Wounded Bird Records. 2005.Alternative Rock CDs
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